We are a Year 1 class at Nelson Central School, Nelson, New Zealand. Most of us are 5 years old,
except for our teachers, Tracy and Sam, who are a little older. This blog lets you know what we
have been up to and what our next learning steps will be. We love to find out what people
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Sunday, 21 May 2017

Week 3 Term 2

As colds and sniffles seem to be on the increase we have been learning about how important it is to wash our hands after sneezing or coughing into them or blowing our noses. We all wet our hands, then Tracy put some glitter on her hands and we shook hands with each other. We all ended up with glitter that had passed from one person to another...just like germs can. Why not try out this experiment at home to also help brothers and sisters learn about the importance of hand washing.

We have been thinking about Autumn and collected leaves to use as part of our Art focus on 'printing'. We will be displaying our work along with some written descriptions of Autumn later this week.

News groups are going well...we loved this recycled dragon!

Despite the wet weather on Wednesday we were able to have a fun hockey lesson..definitely some budding talent on show from Room 10, well done.

In maths with Sam we have started our topic on measurement. This week we were learning about height.

In number work we have been looking at number patterns using all the different ways to make 10.

On Friday with our Room 5 buddies we drew around each other to make chalk characters.

I particularly liked this pirate..he looks pretty scary.

We had a visit from some Enviro Agents this week to look at how much non-recyclable packing was in our lunch boxes. We found some good ideas for environmentally friendly packaging. Lets see if we can reduce our waste next week.

...and of course there was heaps of creative thinking going on during Play Based Learning time.

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